Now, I know there are many principles and views that have been provided by professionals and experts of communication as viable ways of communicating ideas and views clearly. Nevertheless, I must make it clear to you that though all those ideologies such as boldness and confidence, mastery of language, knowing what to say and how to say it, adequate preparation, etc. are indeed effective working tools, but they are not complete in themselves as all time-working tool for communicating ideas. Until you have tried to apply them, you may not really know the depth of what I am trying telling you here. Just as life does not become whatever has been said it is, until you have lived it yourself, so also these principles are not, until you have applied them. But the essence of my taking on this is to save you from the pains of unknown.
So, my argument here is that those principles you already have as yardsticks for communicating ideas clearly, though true and effective, are not complete if they do not include the reality I discovered within a short period of one or two minutes I stood in front of camera on the 27th of June, 2017 to communicate my idea that gave birth to LiPOC in order to get fund for the running of our operations.
Now communicating ideas and views clearly has nothing to do with how much you have gotten to say, but how precise you are in whatever you have gotten to say. Precision is the heart of making yourself clearer.
Precision is heating the nail on the head. It does not mean giving away the key into your treasury; no, it means letting your hearers see your treasures in your treasury through the transparency of your words without them able to touch the treasure. It is like putting grains of maize into transparent bottle for chickens. They can see it, identify it, feel it, want it, but can't just touch it. If you can do that then you can always talk about your ideas anywhere and at anytime without fear of somebody stealing it; instead they will be willing to join you and support it.
HOW TO BE PRECISE IN COMMUNICATING YOUR IDEAS
Communicating ideas with precision without losing them to idea snatchers seems to be the most difficult thing to do for most entrepreneurs. This is one major factor why most of them are afraid of sharing their views in public and on social media; the fear of losing their precious ideas to 'dreams thieves'. Yet this is most greatest opportunity you need to utilize for that your 'baby' to come to life. But this is easier to do for some only when they have opportunity of saying much. And you will not always have enough time to say much, especially in communicating your ideas to the right people that have the capacity to support you.
So what do you need to do this? The same thing you have been hearing: preparation. That is it, the key! But not yet the master key you really need to possess. Mere preparation is not the same as preparation to win. Until you do precise preparation you cannot be precise in your presentation. That is just one thing I didn't do before going into that room to share my burden to the world through media.
So in order to be precise you need to practice with time. Having known what and how of your ideas and business and you can talk about them two hours, four hours with perfect description using the right choice of words that will without further debate get the attention of supporters, but on social media you won't have one hour not even thirty minutes talking about it (especially if you desire to have it spread faster). So what needs to be done is to ask yourself, 'How can I say what needs to be said to make my ideas understandable to potential supporters within five to ten minutes highest?'
It's not hard. Take your time and think of what really communicates your ideas understandably in longer speech (for it is not everything you say in longer speech that communicates the ideas; there are some things you say that stands as pillars in your speech to which other things serve as supporting standings). Therefore, remove those supporting standings and go ahead to make your speech to sort for support. It's like reducing 50-line speech to 5-line speech without reducing in capacity.
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